This is the eighth of our scheduled Director’s Briefings.
First off, thanks to those good folk who responded to our call for assistance on the very messy Quark Spacemaster:Privateers. They have given us a glimmer of hope that we may yet be able to achieve rebranding of those products without resorting to brutal Photoshop and Adobe tactics. One way or another we will get the Privateers line released again, at least in pdf and hopefully in print-on-demand too.
Secondly, in the December Briefing, we described our discount coupon offer to enable purchasers of various scanned products via the diverse incarnations of the Mjolnir store to acquire upgraded searchable pdfs of those vintage RM2 and Spacemaster products. We also indicated that we would be extending this offer to other products in due course. That “in due course†has arrived for the rebranded RMFRP products. Here’s what you need to do: Visit the ICE forums and see which products are on the discount coupon list. Customers who have purchased pdfs from the Mjolnir store between Feb 2008 and Dec 2010 should log into that store and make screenshots of the relevant parts of their order history. Email those screenshots to the following address gcp.store.transition@gmail.com and you will receive RPGNow discount coupons to purchase the rebranded pdfs at a nominal price of one US dollar per product. Customers who purchased the pdfs from the much older Mjolnir store (i.e. before Feb 2008) should have a rummage around in their email archives for receipts, as we will accept those receipts as proof of purchase.
Thirdly, those who follow these Director’s Briefings and/or the ICE forums will know that HARP Fantasy is being worked on. As indicated in the January Briefing, we needed to replace the HARP monster creation system. We’ve now created a new and better monster creation system and we’ve used it to restat the monsters and monstrous races of the HARP Fantasy core rulebook. As soon as I’ve integrated the new stats into the HARP Fantasy core rulebook and the final editorial sweep has been made over the work, we will be handing HARP Fantasy, complete with a whole gallery of fantastic new interior illustrations from Maria Duffield, Raymond Gaustadnes, Rick Hansen and Craig John, over into layout. In terms of remaining changes to HARP Martial Law, only the character stats at the back need to become consistent with the enhanced HARP Fantasy rules; new artwork has been commissioned and is already underway. In terms of HARP College of Magics, all of the spells have been processed through the enhanced spell creation system. We still have to propagate the changes made to the spell creation system into other areas of the book. New artwork is also being commissioned. We will very shortly be able to turn our attention to bringing Loot: a Field Guide into alignment with the other principal products and get the ball rolling on the writing of the new HARP Bestiary.
The next scheduled Director’s Briefing will be presented in early April, and will cover updates from across the product lines.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
Director, Guild Companion Publications Ltd.
